@mozartfan I am curious about your system. What is it that you have for speakers and all of the support front-end gear? I don't see your system posted on your Agon page, so please, enlighten me (us).
With much respect.
With much respect.
Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants
manogolf14 posts07-07-2021 2:38pmWatched a YouTube video on the Voxativ site that led to another video touring the facility where their products are made. They are working on two and three way designs for future offerings. My guess is they will employ crossovers. Yes the tour is amazing, UNREAL. Did you see how super light weight the papyrus cone material.. WOWW, Super light cone meets super powerful neo magnet = Nuclear explosion. OK well, if they bring in some xovers in a new design, I have no issues, None whatsoever. As the sensitivity will still be high. Its xovers + low sensitivity = distortion/coloration = anti-musical anti-high fidelity, This is my issue with vandersteen/Thiels and the rest of that bunch, Yes Iconoclast. Been some time since i used that word. I am The Iconoclast. I bet Voxativ comes out witha 10 incher. You watch. |
mammothguy54470 posts07-07-2021 2:59pm@mozartfan I am curious about your system. What is it that you have for speakers and all of the support front-end gear? I don’t see your system posted on your Agon page, so please, enlighten me (us). With much respect. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Well it was Adam over at modisound who mention, **Wow, you are building some kind of Frankenstein*. Yep The Frankenstein, He came out my lab due toa huge disappointment with my expensive Mundorf cap upgrade to the Millennium, I figured the result would be a Super tweeter like no other, Only small nuances was the result. Ok, Jadis Defy7 , Had my tech swap out the old Jadis wires for navships silver/copper navy/Aero space high tech wiring(NICEEE). Mundorf(made by F&T) SESGO caps on the 12 tubes, + nice F&T’s in other areas of the Defy. The Philips caps inside and on top, these are worth their weight in pure Gold, Takman Rey metal resistors throughtouut system. Gains? have to wait for the Wide band, I’d say Takman Rey’s are the best bang for the buck resistors. I HATE carbon resistors, Lets see, what else, Jadis DAC JS2/mark2, Jadis DPL Mundorf caps throughout both units. Evo Silver’s. Speakers are the Thors minus the Millennium tweeter. Replaced witha DavidLouis 4 inch wide band and a KASUN double magnet 91db 3.5 inch paper cone tweeter/Mundorf 2.2 Silver oil supreme. W18E001’s 40hz-800hz David louis 4 inch 80hz-12khz, maybe higher, not sure the rolloff. Paper cone tweeter, like 9khz - maybe 15khz. Not sure. The speakers make this system work, I can not stand muddy/coloration in the 1k-6khz range. My 1981 purchase of the Philips High Fidelity labotories 375 2 way, the tweeter set the Gold Standard. My tech geek believes the same, independently of my opinion. However, i don’t like domes, the surface area voicing is too tiny. He made me aware of the nice performance of paper cone tweeters, His paper cones in the Realistic Nova 7 (Bs?) are ok, in fact quite good, ’I think my KASUN double magnet’s trump his $3 paper cones. I have no complaints about the KASUN paper cone tweeter, It does exactly what a good tweeter is suppose to do. Took me some time to find that lil guy. Only 1 seller has it. Anyway, I think the sysytem is near completion.. I ’m broke now, But worth it. ;-)) |
@mozartfan The posts are very long and maybe I missed something. What I did read suggested that you are less than enchanted with most everything available today. Thus, I inquired of what it is that you have for a system. I really was sincere about that. If I have misinterpreted any of your posts I sincerely apologize. Nevertheless, I appreciate that you are interested in what my system consists of. Well, I have had a few very nice ones over my lifetime. I retired from the workforce about 3 years ago and after dealing with a total hip replacement I decided to create a better system for my retirement years. Ultimately I will post pictures on my Agon page, now that I am mostly done with building the system. I still need to build a digital front end. For now, I am happy to provide you with a list of the components. Note; there are a lot of great components on the market and there are a lot of great systems that are far better than mine. However, I am very satisfied with the outcome of what I have assembled over these past 2 years. Turntable Rega Planar 10 Cartridge Lyra Delos (soon to upgrade to a Hana, Umami Red) Phono stage Manley Chinook Preamp Balanced Audio Technology VK-33SE Amp Balanced Audio Technology VK-90T (new model, just released) Subwoofer REL S-812 Speakers Dynaudio Contour 60i Dedicated 20 amp circuit for the system Power conditioner Audioquest, Niagara 3000 Signal cables Audioquest, Earth Power cables Audioquest, Tornado (High-Current and Source) Speaker cables Audioquest, William Tell Zero Equipment rack Symposium Acoustics, Foundation Rack Ultra Ampstand Symposium Acoustics, Ultra Pro Stealth Edition Vibration control Symposium Acoustics, Rollerblock Jr HDSE (under all components, including subwoofer) There are plenty of great ones out there, but this one sounds very good to me (and pushed me to my financial limits). I'm not yet certain of what to do for a digital front end, but ultimately I'll get there. Vinyl has been the main source for my entire life. |